Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

express their detSstatiOn. 1 can think
now of only two well-to-do men who
espoused His cause. N~icodemus and
Joseph of Arimathea. His friends tor
the most part were people who, in that
climate where opthalmy or inflamma-
ton of the eyebal j. sweeps ever and anon
as a scourge, had become blind, sick
people who were anxious to get well,
and troubled people in whose family
there vas some one dead or dying. II
He had a purse at all it was empty. or
we would have heard what was done
with the contents at the post mortem.
POORe
The pigeon in the dove-cote, the rab-
bit in its burrow, the silk worm in its
cocoon, the bee in its hive is better pro-
vided for. better of, better sheltered.
Aye, the brute creation has "A home on
earth, which Christ has not.
" op windy days the raven
Gambol like & dancing sktff,
Not the less he love. his haven
On the bosom OF the cliff.
II slmost with eagle pinion
O'er the Alps the era nois roam,
Yet he has some small dom 'ni0n
Which no doubt he calls his home.
But the Crown Prince of all hea yenly
dominion has less than the raven, less
than the chamois, for He was homeless.
Aye, in the history of the universe there
Is no other instance of such coming
down. Who can count the miles from
the top of the throne to the bottom of
the CROSSE Cleopatra, giving a ban
quet TO Antony, took "A pearl worth n
hundred thousand dollars and dissolved
it in vinegar and swallowed it. Bat
when our Prince, according to the evan
gelist, in His last hour took the vinegar.
in il had been dissolved all the pearls
of His heavenly royalty. Down until
there was no other depth for Him TO
touch, troubled until there was 10 other
harassment to suffer, poor until there
was III other pauperigm to torture.
Billions Of dollars spent in wars TO de-
stroy men, who will furnish the statis-
tics of the value Of
THAT PRECIOUS BLOOD
that was shed to save usp .'Ye know
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
though He was rich, yet for your sakes
He became poor"
Only those who study this text in two
places a fully reach its power, the
Holy Land of Asia Minor and the holy
land of heaven. How should like
some day to take a drink out of Jacobs
well, and take a sail on Galilee. and
read the sermon on the Mount while
standing on Oilvet, and see the wilder
ness where Christ was tempted, and be
three o'clock, the hour at which closed
the crucitixion, and sit under the syca-
mores and by the side of brooks, and
think and dream and pray about the
poverty of Him who came our souls TO
save. But you and l will proba lv be
denied that. and so here. in another
continent and in another hemisphere.
and in scenes as different as possible,
we recount AS well we may how poor
our heavenly Prince became. And in
the other holy land above we may all
study the riches that He left behind
when he started for earthly expedition.
Come. let us bargain 10 meet each
other ut the door of the Fathers man-
sion, or on tie bank Of the river Just
where it rolls from under the throne,
at the outside gate. Jesus got the
contrast by exchanging that world for
this; we will get it by exchanging this
world for that. There and then you
will understand more Of the
WONDERS OF THE GRACE
of orr Lord Jesus Christ who. ''though
He was rich, yet for your sakes became
poor"
Yes, grace, free grace, sovereign
grace, omnipotent grace. Among the
Of words in the language
there is no more queenly word II
means free aud unmeritrd kindness.
Ny text has no monopoly of the weird.
One hundred and twenty-nine times
does the b bic eulogize grace. 1t i. a
door swung wide open To let into the
of God all the millions wGo
choose to enter it.
John Newton sang of it when he
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like met
Phillip Doddridge put it into all
hymnology when he wrote:
"Grace, tits a charming sound,
Harmonious e the ear;
Heaven with the echo shall rescued,
And al 'ha would shall herr"
One of John Bunyan's great books ia
entitled Astounding Grace" Ut IS
all of grace that ! am saved has been
on the lips of hundreds Of dying Chris
The boy Sammy was right
being examined for admission
into church membership. be was asked:
Whose work was yonr saivatienp'
and be answered: Part mine aud
part Gods" Then the examiner
What part did you do.
and the answer was: "l
opposed God all I could, and He did
the rest!' o, the height Of it. the
of it, the leugth Of it, the breadth